Yearly Archives: 2013

May 14, 2013Comments Off on Man with pressure cooker in luggage detained

No matter how you look at it, if you’re a foreign national coming to the U.S., packing a pressure cooker in your luggage is probably not a good idea, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. But that’s what ...

Under the terms of the parties’ ERISA insurance contract, the court must review defendant’s denial of plaintiff’s application for long-term disability benefits under the arbitrary and capricious standard. Plaintiff has not made a compelling argument that Michigan administrative law, which ...

An attorney’s fees request for 23 billable hours under the Equal Access to Justice Act in this Social Security case is reasonable. However plaintiff has not shown that the requested hourly rate, $185.75, is warranted, given the nature of the ...

The court grants in part the request for attorney’s fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act in this Social Security case. Plaintiff has claimed too many billable hours, 44.5, at too high an hourly rate, $170.52, to be considered ...

May 14, 2013Comments Off on Transfer tax suit filed by registers of deeds dismissed

Once heralded as a vehicle to collect millions in unpaid transfer taxes resulting from foreclosure sales, a suit filed by Curtis Hertel and Nancy Hutchins, the registers of deeds in Ingham and Branch counties, respectively, has been foreclosed by Judge ...

A Lenawee County judge has sentenced a man to the maximum of 28 months to six years in prison for stealing pots, pans and utensils from The Daily Bread of Lenawee, a local soup kitchen. “You did not just steal ...

May 14, 2013Comments Off on Ex-Detroit mayor files complaint against lawyer, wants new trial

Embattled former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has asked a federal judge to overturn his corruption conviction and order a new trial. But, The Detroit News reports, Kilpatrick also personally filed a complaint with the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission against his ...

May 14, 2013Comments Off on Former Miller Canfield attorney opens cyberlaw practice

In recent professional moves … Kathryn L. Ossian has opened her own practice in Ferndale, Ossian Law PC, with an exclusive focus on information technology law and cyberlaw. A former senior principal at Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone PLC, Ossian ...